Madchen Amick Quotes
That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Your papers are marked when you go to school, but you can't mark the character.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I wanted a personal-finance tool for people who didn't want to be accountants: something you could set up in ten minutes and spend less than five minutes a week on. Mint is now that tool.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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I do believe that the coal industry sees the cultural shift toward cleaner energy and global warming solutions as a threat to their interests.
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When I'm in 'Man vs. Wild' mode, it's not pleasure. Every sensor is firing and I'm on reserve power all the time and I'm digging deep - and that's the magic of it as well, and that's raw and it's great.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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The good thing about being an actress is that it's very children-friendly. I can work for three months, and then I can have six months off.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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For me, a child means an old-age insurance policy. I have a nurturing quality in me.
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All of the art that I love is about peeling back layers and delving into something that's in a subconscious or dream realm. People like Jan Svankmajer, or the artist Yoshimoto Nara, or David Lynch.
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People have passed through a very dark tunnel at the end of which there was a light of freedom. Unexpectedly they passed through the prison gates and found themselves in a square. They are now free and they don't know where to go.
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I really try to divorce myself from any thought of possible use of this stuff. That's part of the discipline. My only purpose while I'm working is to try to make interesting photographs, and what to do with them is another act - an alter consideration. Certainly while I'm working, I want them to be as useless as possible.
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Wilderness has been characterized as barren and unproductive; little can be grown in its sand and rock. But the crops of wilderness have always been its spiritual values - silence and solitude, a sense of awe and gratitude - able to be harvested by any traveler who visits.
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I think George Mitchell was the right guy for the right time, and many people will note his spectacular foreign policy accomplishments, both in and out of office. I think all would note his devotion to Maine; that was number one. The fact he did work in a bipartisan basis with Bill Cohen. And for me, he helped the first Democratic woman get elected.
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That was the beauty of 'Twin Peaks.' The young people had just as deep of storylines as the older generation in town.
